Quote Originally Posted by Buggy Chief View Post
Welcome Rivets. Impressive Big Iron my friend. At least you got paid to fly How was the pucker factor when you did the CAT IIIa?
The whole approach (London) was pretty well the same as in the simulator. At the "100 above" call, the F/O remains heads down on the panel and the captain must start scanning through the windshield for visual cues.

At the "Decision Height" call from the F/O, the only two possible responses from the captain are "Landing" or "Go around". In this particular approach, all I saw at D/H was the orange glare of the High Intensity Approach Lights through the fog, not the runway itself.
Called "Landing" and the three Autopilots did their job.

More interesting was the tower instruction to follow the green exits lights, to which the F/O responded "We don't see any". Tower replied, "You will".

Sure enough, when ground radar observed that we had slowed down sufficiently, a set of green lights were switched on at the appropriate moment, and we followed them all the way to the gate without seeing anything outside. Taxi speed was maintained using IRS G/S readout.

The one in Zurich was anticlimactic because the weather had lifted somewhat on final approach.

Andy